The John Edes House
THE JOHN EDES HOUSE, WEST STREET
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1026616
- Date first listed:
- 05-Jul-1950
- List Entry Name:
- The John Edes House
- Statutory Address:
- THE JOHN EDES HOUSE, WEST STREET
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Official list entry
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1026616
- Date first listed:
- 05-Jul-1950
- Date of most recent amendment:
- 08-Oct-1971
- List Entry Name:
- The John Edes House
- Statutory Address 1:
- THE JOHN EDES HOUSE, WEST STREET
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- THE JOHN EDES HOUSE, WEST STREET
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- West Sussex
- District:
- Chichester (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Chichester
- National Grid Reference:
- SU 85798 04880
Details
TEST STREET 1. 972 (North Side) The John Edes House (formerly Westgate House) SU 8504 NE 3/136 5.7.5O. I GV 2. 1696. This house has often been attributed to Wren, but the Victoria County History and other architectural critics dissent. 2 storeys, attic and basement. 7 windows. Red brick with Portland stone dressings and centre portion. The shape of the house is a central portion with 2 slightly projecting wings. String-course above ground floor. Cornice above 1st floor with modillions and egg and dart moulding below. Tiled hipped roof with lead ridges. 1 dormer in each wing. Pediment over central portion. Original casement wipdows with leaded panes and keystones over. Doorway up steps with pilasters of quoins, flat arch, semi-circular fanlight, broken curved pediment and 6 panel moulded doors. The approach has been altered in modern times. In the place of a brick wall some way in front of the house, a low stone wall has been built at the bottom of the steps which hides the basement windows. The pair of panelled stone piers supporting pineapples which previously flanked the entrance to the house in the middle of the brick wall has been moved to the entrance to the County Hall at the side and a similar pair, copied from them, were at the same time placed each side of the exit on the other side, but have since been removed. The garden front has a porch with Ionic columns and a room above, added later. Good panelling inside.
Church of St Peter, Nos 21 to 25 (consec), The John Edes House and Nos 27 to 33 (consec) form a group.
Listing NGR: SU8579404879
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 300284
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Books and journals
Saltzman, L F, The Victoria History of the County of Sussex, (1935)
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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